The Faculty of Social Sciences is excited to offer a rigorous one-year international graduate program in Peace and Conflict Management.
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The Faculty of Social Sciences is excited to offer a rigorous one-year international graduate program in Peace and Conflict Management. Viewed through both international and regional lenses, the field of conflict management will be explored in its many facets, with special attention paid to the wider Middle East conflict while conceptual, practical and comparative elements of conflict management of other global conflicts are examined.

As a deeply divided society and a country in protracted conflict with other countries in the region, Israel is a unique environment for a program whose goal is to enable students to understand how conflicts unfold from the grassroots level and move up through the halls of government to the international community. Israel supplies excellent field study opportunities that allow students to see how attempts to manage conflicts and promote coexistence, mutual understanding, and peace processes actually develop and take root, and is a real-time hands-on working laboratory for advanced international and Israeli students, offering encounters with ongoing conflicts as well as successful and failed efforts to achieve peace.

What you will study

The interdisciplinary program of study includes courses in political science, international relations, psychology, sociology, communications, history and regional studies. Included in the course of study are a number of field trips throughout Israel in order to gain close familiarity with certain aspects of the local conflict. There is also a practicum component in NGOs related to aspects of peace-making and conflict management; thoughtful simulations of decision making processes, negotiations and conflict management; and guest lectures given by activists, practitioners, politicians, diplomats, academics and former military officials.

Over the course of three semesters we will study sources, types and levels of conflicts, where students will become familiar with tools to trace their development. The curriculum takes as its focus courses on conflict management and provides students with practical tools in the fostering of peace processes. Research methodology and a field practicum are also included. For more curriculum information please visit here.

Courses

Theories and Issues in Intergroup Conflict: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Elective Courses

Conflict and its Resolution at the Community Level

Geopolitics of the Middle East

Intervention in International Crises: Motivations, Procedures, Results and Implications

Leadership and Conflict Management: Cross-Fertilization

Multi-Track Diplomacy: Transforming Violent Conflict

Peacekeeping Operations: A New Tool for World Order?

Social Psychology of Intergroup Conflicts and their Resolution

The Law and Ethics of War

The Media in Peace and Conflict Management: Seminar

The Theory and Practice of International Conflicts, their Management and Resolution

The UN Model

Types of Management of Collective Identities in Diverse Societies

Thesis and Non-thesis tracks are available. For more information on the course curriculum and course descriptions please click here.

Faculty

The diverse faculty is made up of teaching staff from a variety of disciplines including politics, international relations, psychology, conflict mediation and history. For a full list of factulty staff and their specialisations please visit here.

Scholarships

Click here for more information on financial aid and scholarships. Applicants accepted into this program are eligible for a MASA grant.